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Western Research

Life Sci 2002 Jan 18;70(9):1075-84Isolation of lilin, a novel arginine- and glutamate-rich protein with potent antifungal and mitogenic activities from lily bulbs.
Wang H, Ng TB.Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing.
From the dried bulbs of the lily (Lilium brownii), a protein with strong antifungal and mitogenic activities was isolated. It also exhibited an inhibitory action on the activity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.